Cleveland State University

No, that was Vince Lombardi's Fordham team back in the day in the offensive line.

But Mizzou taking on Cleveland State tonight, favored by 26 points.

K-State, South Dakota State tonight, 10.5-point favorites are the Wildcats.

Both those games at 7 o'clock.

We'll talk some college basketball today as well.

KU in action taking care of Fordham.

Mizzou against Cleveland State tonight.

Kansas State against South Dakota State coming up tonight.

He has Cincinnati roots.

He was a good player in high school, got a college scholarship, played for Willie Massimino at Cleveland State for a couple years, and then he transferred to Cincinnati to become a student assistant under Bob Huggins there, got into coaching, and then a couple years later hooked up with Huggins at West Virginia.

So Calhoun has some Bob Huggins roots.

He has Cincinnati roots because that's where he got his degree from.

I'm going to add something late here really quickly.

Our boy Adam earlier in the program from Roto-Wire said, I like the angle here for Missouri and Cleveland State.

So I'm going to take Cleveland State plus 26.5 against the Tigers.

Obviously, the suspension and subsequent lack of eligibility for carry and gun, but also do wonder if it's a little bit of a look-ahead spot for the Tigers.

They do have St. Louis on a neutral coming up out there in St. Louis, Missouri on Friday.

So lowly Cleveland State.

You're missing two guys that you expected to have here on the floor with a look-ahead spot against a top 50 team coming up on Friday.

We'll take 26.5 with Cleveland State and see if they can stay inside of it.

Today, we're joined by Lee Fisher, who is the 10th president of Baldwin-Wallace University in Berea, Ohio.

Lee became president in July, 2025, after serving nine years as Dean at Cleveland State University's College of Law, where he helped lead a substantial turnaround in enrollment and financial performance.

And before entering higher education leadership, he had an extensive career in public service, including serving in the Ohio legislature, Ohio Attorney General, and also then Lieutenant Governor under Governor Ted Strickland.

He has also held leadership positions in nonprofit sector.

And I knew that was in the higher education sector.

So I also knew, however, that I was going against the odds because of my resume.

But I tried anyway and was lucky enough to get the dean of Cleveland State University Law School.

And then even when I applied for this position, I think I thought I was a dark horse.

Missouri's going to be interesting this year, too.

They're going to be taking on a very winnable game against Cleveland State.

Why? Well, Cleveland State is ranked to finish, well, just about dead last in the Horizon League, how the mighty have fallen there.

Dennis Gates and Missouri is loaded again this year, although...

They do have a suspension coming to one of their key players in this season, so keep an eye on that.

My confidence level in this is shrinking by the day.

Well, that can be Cleveland State tonight.

I'm really curious.

We'll talk about this probably as we go along here this week, maybe further into the week, especially as we get into the Mizzou slew game.

He has Cincinnati roots.

He was a good player in high school, got a college scholarship, played for Willie Massimino at Cleveland State for a couple years, and then he transferred to Cincinnati to become a student assistant under Bob Huggins there, got into coaching, and then a couple years later hooked up with Huggins at West Virginia.

So Calhoun has some Bob Huggins roots.

He has Cincinnati roots because that's where he got his degree from.

And this one looks like a potential upset to me, but Missouri hasn't played yet.

They play tonight against Cleveland State, so we're gonna get to see how they integrate Mark Mitchell back into the lineup as a fifth-year guy.

Who knows how long he'll be around for.

This is an ongoing thing.

But the Blues are playing their, what, 16th, 17th regular season game.

And, you know, the Billikens played Lehigh and Missouri's playing Cleveland State and Illinois played Fairleigh Dickinson.

I mean, to sit here and break that stuff down, you're talking to like 15 people.

And honestly, those people aren't the people I'm really interested in talking to.